When is the resource of type "view" used in a plugin?

[norbyltd]

I see in all plugin examples a resources such as

      <resource type="freemarker" name="view" location="xxx.ftl"/> .

When is this template used within Bamboo?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

Those are free marker templates: http://freemarker.org

They are used for most plugin view, including actions, task configurations and web fragments, and are also used for other things like notifications. See https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/freemarker-and-notification-templates-289276983.html for some sample usage.

[norbyltd]

I haven't expressed myself well, sorry.

I know what they are. I have an edit template and a view template. I see the edit template in use when a task is created or edited in Bamboo. I am asking in which flow within Bamboo would the view template be used?

A related question is in which circumstances will populateContextForView() of AbstractTaskConfigurator be called?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Ah ok. In the later versions of Bamboo, you don't need it because the "View" template is not rendered anywhere. As soon as you click on the Task, it renders the "Edit" template.

[norbyltd]

Thank you.

I do get the feeling that much of the documentation is very out of date.

Writing my plugin requires a lot of guesswork.